Andre Honsberg is a software engineer who develops mostly for the Web. He lives in Hamburg Germany and works building software for the web using a wide spectrum of different technologies.

Doing a lot of web development I always need to find new ways to do things. A client recently needed a Flash PDF reader so I had to install swftools. Unfortunately on CentOS 5.6 I could not get the application compiled even though I had all the dependencies.

Well now I found an easy solution to install the package on CentOS 5.6. Follow the steps below on the command line as root: